‘People [my] age can vaguely remember a few examples, maybe,” says director Roisin Agnew. “But they didn’t think of the broadcasting ban as a phenomenon – the only thing that comes up is that Chris Morris sketch.”
Agnew is speaking to me as her new film The Ban is being screened at festivals. The 26-minute documentary tracks the genesis, enactment and fallout of the law which barred spokespeople from Sinn Féin from speaking on the British airwaves between 1988 and 1994, as well as the experiences of those caught in its crosshairs.
